After completing the recruitment of this group of Cossacks, Marin was overjoyed. So, he sent men to catch up with Jamakhan, who was on his way back to the Crimea, and ordered him a large order for the purchase of 2,000 Cossack families. Moreover, the bid for each Cossack was as high as 40 gold coins, worth 5 cattle. Of course, every Cossack family must include a strong Cossack who can fight.

Jama Khan was stunned - that's the price of five cows! Moreover, you can exchange it for 40 bottles of rye 2-pot heads, which are the favorite of the Crimean Tatars! This ticket must be dry! So, Jama Khan didn't hesitate to take the order, just waited to report back, and then took action.

It is true that those Cossacks can fight, but in the face of the superior army of the Crimean Khanate, what can they be counted as a mere Cossack tribe?

Once upon a time, the Crimeans did not move those Cossacks because they could fight and were so poor that they had no oil or water. Now, the looting of those Cossacks can be exchanged for money, and the horses of the Cossacks can be exchanged for more money according to the price of the horses - this business is worth it......

In general, each Cossack would have had a war horse for himself. In this way, as long as you catch a Cossack family, you can not only sell the family for a high price of 40 gold coins, but also sell their own war horses to Marin, you can also exchange them for 20 gold coins...... In this way, the business is worth it...... Jama Khan bet that their Great Khan would agree to the deal......

It was a win-win deal, the Crimeans got enough money, and Marin got the thugs who acted as black gloves for themselves......

However, Marin specifically demanded - only ordinary Cossacks, not Cossack chiefs. After all, only those ordinary Cossacks were easily absorbed by those German Cossack villages. If there was a leader, these Cossacks would gather in small circles to disobey discipline. So, those original Cossack leaders were doomed to death......

In this way, Marin will pay up to 120,000 gold coins and liquor for the 2,000 Cossacks, including the war horses. Fortunately, spirits cost less. Otherwise, Marin is really a little unbearable.

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Probably thinking that it would be too expensive to spend money on Cossacks in this way, Marin suddenly thought - why didn't I send someone to solicit it?

The places where Ukrainian Cossacks lived, most of them were located on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. And the current Grand Duke of Lithuania, Zygmunt I, is his brother-in-law, and he can send people to recruit Cossacks in the Ukrainian steppe......

And sending people to recruit Cossacks by themselves, you don't need to spend money at all, as long as you promise enough wine and meat, you can basically achieve your goal. So why spend all that unjust money?

So, on the one hand, Marin placed an order with the Crimean Khanate, and on the other hand, he also sent people to the Ukrainian steppes and recruited Cossacks to serve him on his own.

Moreover, later, in order to prevent the Crimea from invading the Cossacks who sleepwalked in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, when Marin placed an order with the Crimean Khanate, he specified that he wanted the Don Cossacks, not the Ukrainian Cossacks of Kievan Rus. In this way, Marin himself recruited Ukrainian Cossacks not only saved a lot of money. Moreover, it also played a weakening role in the Don Cossacks, which were dominated by Maozi......

Decades later, when Vasily III's son, Ivan IV, sent to the steppes of the Don to recruit Cossacks, he was shocked to find that there were not many Cossacks left...... And this also had an extremely negative impact on Maozi's expansion to the east. After all, the infantry expanded into Siberia, and the devil knew that the Year of the Monkey would not be able to reach the Far East......

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Marin's good mood didn't last long, and the reason was - Tara sent back a second ship with bad news......

What's the news? It turned out that the colony of Havana in Cuba ushered in a wave of high temperatures in August. According to the mercury thermometer made by Leonardo da Vinci, the local temperature has been in the area for half a month, and the maximum temperature has reached 40 degrees......

This wave of high temperatures, which lasted for half a month, had a serious impact on the local area. The biggest hazard was the death of more than 300 cattle from heat......

You must know that there are currently more than 500 cultivated cattle in the Havana colony of Cuba, and more than 300 of them died of heat at once, which is almost fatal. Fortunately, it is not the season to plough in Cuba, otherwise agriculture would have suffered a huge blow.

Of course, Cuba is tropical, and farming can be done all year round, but there is no need to distinguish between spring and autumn planting. However, more than half of the ploughing cattle were killed by heat, causing Tara to nearly collapse.

Actually, Tara can't be blamed for this. Because, these cattle are all Eastern European cattle imported from Crimea. Eastern European cattle can be hardy, but not heat......

In fact, this is not the first time that a hot cow has died. Almost every year, the colonies of Grenada and Cuba die of heat. After all, cattle of hardy breeds are generally not heat-tolerant.

In order to be hardy, Eastern European cattle generally grow longer cow hair, and the cowhide is thicker and the pores are smaller. After all, cattle of cold temperate breeds do not sweat much, so they naturally do not need too many pores to sweat.

However, when this hardy cow arrives in the tropics, it is not very adaptable. The small pores hinder the sweat and heat dissipation of the cow. If the temperature is in the thirties, the Eastern European cattle can barely tolerate it. However, when the temperature reaches more than 35 degrees, these Eastern European cattle with small pores and long hair will be killed by heat, almost every year.

However, under normal circumstances, only a small percentage of cattle are killed by heat. Because, ultra-high temperatures are not common. However, this year, the colony of Havana in Cuba suddenly encountered a wave of 40 degrees Celsius for half a month, which made the Eastern European cattle of the cold temperate breed immediately unbearable, and more than half of them were killed by the heat. This wave of loss made Tara almost cry...... So, he had to write to Marin for help, hoping that Marlin would bring a few hundred more cattle over to replenish it. After all, the Cuban region is now double cropping a year, and after a while, it will be ploughed again, and there will be a shortage of cattle......

Seeing Tara's distress letter, Marin was also very depressed:

"Damn, hot cow ......"

For this kind of thing, Marin can't blame Tara either. After all, Marin also knows that the cattle of Eastern Europe are really not suitable for the wet and hot Cuba.

However, throughout Europe, there are no breeds of cattle adapted to the climate of tropical rainforests. Perhaps when these cattle arrive in the tropics, they will give birth to the next generation, and in order to adapt to the climate, the pores may become thicker. However, it takes several generations of cattle to get used to it.

At the moment, the only ones that can adapt to the tropical rainforest climate are the buffalo and the cattle from Southeast Asia and India. After all, buffaloes can soak in water to escape the heat, while cattle in Southeast Asia and India have adapted to tropical climates because they are used to the heat.

"It seems that we have to send a ship to India to buy some heat-tolerant breeds of cattle!" Marin said helplessly.

It seems that at the beginning of spring next year, Spain will once again organize a fleet to go to India to buy spices, and Marin can send a merchant ship to buy some Indian cattle by the way......

"No, it seems that there are heat-tolerant breeds of cattle in Africa!"

Because Africa is so uncivilized, Marin almost forgot about African cattle......

Marin's first thought was the African buffalo, but he quickly ruled it out. Why? The African buffalo is so ferocious! Especially the herds of African buffalo! Marin had seen videos of the African buffalo killing the male master in his previous life, and he knew that the African buffalo was one of the most dangerous animals in the African savannah. Therefore, he immediately dismissed the plan to send people to the African savannah to hunt African buffalo. The same buffalo, the African buffalo is brave and fierce, daring to take on the lion alone, while the Asian buffalo is as gentle as a knowledgeable lady......

So, since there is no need for African buffalo......

"By the way, the Mali Empire!"

Marin suddenly remembered that it seemed that the Mali Empire and the Songhai Empire also had a cattle breeding industry......

Moreover, the Mali Empire is located on the coast of West Africa. Now the Mali Empire, although the Songhai Empire has robbed Timbuktu of the gold trading center, is still barely holding on. Marin didn't want gold from West Africa, he just wanted to buy some heat-tolerant breeds of African cattle.

The distance between the Mali Empire and the Caribbean Sea is very close, and it is convenient and fast to buy cattle from the coast of the Mali Empire and ship them to the Americas. And the amount is not small. It's not like going to India to buy cattle, it's too far away......

So, Marin approached Kohler and asked him to send someone to Portugal to contact the Portuguese colonists and ask them to help buy cattle from West Africa......